Why you should learn Western and not asian martial arts if you are white

Negros excel at running because they have narrower hips and a few other traits. Every running record from 100m to a mile is held by a black. The last time a white held the 100m record was in the sixties.

Whites however are preeminent in sports that require upper body strength - rowing, shotput, javalin and we hold the top 50 throws in shot for example.

Re: Why you should learn Western and not asian martial arts if you are white

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Originally Posted by Angry Wasp

Chinks are small and nippy so they utilised kicks to compete against the greater physical power of russians for example.

LOL, wtf are you talking about?

Beyond that, you should learn western styles and systems so you don't get your ass handed to you should the need to defend yourself arise. The western way of war has always been superior. Learn it and love it.

Re: Why you should learn Western and not asian martial arts if you are white

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Originally Posted by Angry Wasp

Negros excel at running because they have narrower hips and a few other traits. Every running record from 100m to a mile is held by a black. The last time a white held the 100m record was in the sixties.

Whites however are preeminent in sports that require upper body strength - rowing, shotput, javalin and we hold the top 50 throws in shot for example.

Contrary to popular perception, fighting arts are not exclusively an Asian phenomenon, but exist in practically every culture and across all historical time-frames. It is doubtful if any people, anywhere on earth, ever lacked completely for some kind of combative techniques with which to fight savage nature or their sometimes-more savage fellowmen. Moreover, beliefs and practices that Europeans and North Americans associate with Asian combative systems often find their counterparts in western fighting methods. The kiai (shout) of the Japanese martial artist is similar in purpose and scope to the war-cries of many non-Asian peoples such as Africans, Amerindians, Celts, Greeks, Romans and Slavs, while the concept of chí or ki can be found readily in the Grecian belief in pneuma (air, breath, spirit), an inner power which burns brightly inside each human and, when properly used, can aid them in attaining superior physical results. Greek and Roman pugilists frequently broke planks and stones to demonstrate their prowess, while wrestlers sometimes stood on oiled shields and invited challengers to push them off--an act reminiscent of aikido and tai chi ch'uan adepts withstanding the combined force of several men by concentrating on their center of gravity.

What is also not generally known is that there existed in the ancient world an unarmed fighting art which not only compares favorably with later Asian systems, but as an event in the ancient Olympic Games was considered the truest test of an athlete's combative ability. This was the martial art known as pankration, a blend of Hellenic wrestling, boxing, strangulation, kicking and striking techniques, as well as joint locks. Indeed, the only practices not allowed in pankration were biting, gouging, or scratching -- all else were considered legal acts during competition.

As a word, pankration comes from the adjective pankrates, meaning "all encompassing" or "all powers." Its earliest reference occurs in 648 B. C., when it made its debut in the 33rd ancient Olympic Games, but its introduction into the Olympic program denotes that it had to have become a systematized art long before this date. In short order it became the most popular event of every Greek athletic festival, including the Olympics, usually climaxing the festival following boxing and wrestling. A mark of its enormous popularity came in 200 B. C., when a boys' division was added to the Olympics.

Pankration matches were significantly rugged endeavors -- serious injuries and even deaths were "occupational hazards" of the pankratist and not considered extraordinary events. Those wishing to train in pankration did so at the palaestra (training hall), within a special room set aside for the exclusive use of boxers and pankratists known as the korykeion. This chamber contained punching and kicking equipment known as korykos; bags or balls filled with meal or fig seeds and suspended from the ceiling at chest level. Similarly, a sandbag was suspended approximately two feet off the floor for kicking, although some trainees preferred practicing their kicks against tree trunks. Records indicate that some prankratists possessed the ability to kick through war shields.

Pankration (pronounced /pæŋˈkrɑːti.ɒn/ or /pæŋˈkreɪʃən/; from Ancient Greek: Παγκράτιον [paŋkrátion] "all-in wrestling" Modern Greek: Παγκράτιο [pa(ŋ)ˈɡratio]) is a combat sport introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC and founded as a blend of boxing and wrestling.

The term comes from the Ancient Greek παγκράτιον, literally meaning "all powers" from πᾶν (pan) "all" + κράτος (kratos) "strength" or "power". It is also used to describe the sport's contemporary variations. Some consider it as the first all-encompassing fighting system in human history. It is also arguable that pankration competitions in antiquity were the closest an athletic event has come to outright, no-rules, empty hand combat. Modern mixed martial arts competitions have come to feature many of the same methods that were used in pankration competitions in the ancient Greek world.

Re: Why you should learn Western and not asian martial arts if you are white

If you pigeon hole yourself into ANY one thing you are foolish... there exists a great never ending supply of various firearms within this world.. many lengths... calibers.. configurations.... there are so many because different applications require different tools..

fighting is identical.. Would I go for an "arm triangle" while engaging someone in a street fight? unlikely.. but KNOWING how and why an arm triangle works.. having done it a million times.. it is certainly likely that I may do something SIMILAR should the opportunity present itself.. I learn various fighting styles to protect myself, so with that in mind I choose NOT to limit myself..

Re: Why you should learn Western and not asian martial arts if you are white

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Originally Posted by DamagedWorld

If you pigeon hole yourself into ANY one thing you are foolish... there exists a great never ending supply of various firearms within this world.. many lengths... calibers.. configurations.... there are so many because different applications require different tools..

fighting is identical.. Would I go for an "arm triangle" while engaging someone in a street fight? unlikely.. but KNOWING how and why an arm triangle works.. having done it a million times.. it is certainly likely that I may do something SIMILAR should the opportunity present itself.. I learn various fighting styles to protect myself, so with that in mind I choose NOT to limit myself..

Yeah, you're sure right about that.

That's why someone who cross trains and has several different skill sets (punching, kicking, kneeing, elbowing, gouging, wrestling, grappling, submission holds, learning how to use a knife and carrying one, knowing how to use a variety of firearms and carrying one etc etc) has a much better chance of defeating an attacker or attackers than a person that is just really good at one thing and that limits themselves to one specific skill set.

If he's true to form Mr. Murphy will probably throw you in the one messed up situation where you've practiced the least....so it's better to be a jack of all trades and cross train rather than to just concentrate on one area or skill set.

ANY style or technique is a White Martial Art when used by a White person, no mater who first taught it.

Yes, very true.

One of the best things that you can do is to use the tactics of your enemy to defeat them....kind of funny too.

However I find it interesting to train in the martial arts that people of European Heritage came up with. It's kinda cool IMO that something as old as Pankration Fighting is as useful in some situations today as it was thousands of years ago.